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July 22, 2010
Microsoft Extends Support For Windows XP Until 2020
By Neville Hobson
Microsoft announced yesterday that a public beta of the forthcoming service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is available for download.

In his post yesterday, Brandon LeBlanc, Windows Communications Manager at Microsoft, said that after only 7 months in market, Windows 7 had nearly a 14% share of the global operating systems market; and Windows 7 has become the fastest-selling operating system in history with 150 million licenses sold so far.

Terrific metrics. As someone who has embraced Windows 7, I can say from hands-on experience that it is the best operating system Microsoft has produced since, well, Windows XP.

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